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0 pointsbelter3y ago0 comments

Not true. It's not if the screens get updated. They do not get updated based on the actual train on the track but from information info you can infer from an pre-established schedule.

Let me tell more about what prompted the conversation with the platform manager. I was staying at a hotel in Amsterdam while doing an IT project in the north of the country. One of the days took the wrong train. At that time, I just attributed it to not really carefully reading the platform indicator. The next day had to take the same train, at the same time, carefully checked the platform monitor, but as I had been burned the previous day....Decided to also ask the train ticket controller at the train door. He laughed and pointed me to another different indicator some trains have, and that happened to show a different destination for that specific train.

The cognitive dissonance that I experienced was so strong, I decided right there to also be late that day, look for the train station manager, for a polite but frustrated conversation on my part, and it was then he clarified this.

Also any Internet search will show others with similar experiences.

Edit: Looking at this example from 6 months ago...Continues to happen:-)

https://community.ns.nl/dienstregeling-59/geen-sprinter-maar...

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Denvercoder93y ago

> Not true. It's not if the screens get updated. They do not get updated based on the actual train on the track but from information info you can infer from an pre-established schedule.

Not true in general. The screens do actually get updated based on the actual schedule when there are track changes and/or delays. They don't stubbornly stick to the pre-planned schedule. I've seen that happen countless times. That said, occasionally I've seen the screens lag behind reality a bit, usually during and around big disturbances.

> Edit: Looking at this example from 6 months ago...Continues to happen:-)

> https://community.ns.nl/dienstregeling-59/geen-sprinter-maar...

This example doesn't support your argument: there's not even a claim there that the screens weren't correct.

belterOP3y ago

Translating only one part of the long thread it says exactly what I was referring to:

"...Ik zeg “als het goed was” want soms gebeurt het bij vertragingen wel eens dat de schermen een verkeerde trein aangeven..."

"...I say “if it was good” because sometimes it happens with delays that the screens indicate the wrong train..."

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